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Decimal watch by Richard Dover Statter and Thomas Statter

Clockmakers

1862

Builder's whole, rigged model, of SS 'Great Eastern', 1853-1857

Water Transport

1853-1857

Model of a Power loom for plain weaving

Textiles Machinery

1857

Hughes' printing telegraph, 1860.

Telecommunications

1860

Thompson's Revolver Camera

Photographs

1862

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

Anaesthesiology

1847-1848

Britannia statue

Fixtures & Fittings from Railway Buildings

1849

Model paddle wheel engines of the SS 'Great Eastern'

Marine Engines

1853-1857

Bullion box containing lead shot

Miscellanea & Curiosities

1855

Cloth tape measure

Hand and Machine Tools

1850-1860

Microscope Slide, 1852

Public Health & Hygiene

1852

Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

Telecommunications

1850

Palmer's micrometer (replica)

Industrial Metrology

c. 1848

Colour lithograph of the S.S. 'Great Eastern'

Archive

1850-1859

Thomson's Mirror Marine Galvanometer, 1858

Electricity and Magnetism

1858

Improved Patent Magneto Electric Machine for nervous diseases

Therapeutics

1862

sample of the first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858

Telecommunications

1857-1858

Mirror galvanometer for the transatlantic telegraph, 1858

Electricity and Magnetism

1858

William Thomson's marine mirror galvanometer, 1850-1900

Telecommunications

1854

Architect's model of S&J Watts' warehouse

Textile Industry

1850-1856

Thomson's Mirror Galvanometer, 1858

Telecommunications

1858

Marble statue of George Stephenson, 1852

Fixtures & Fittings from Railway Buildings

1852

Nimbus, or rain cloud

Luke Howard

1849

Henley's magneto electric double needle telegraph, 1848-1852

Telecommunications

1848-1852

Sample of Bessemer steel

Metallurgy

1860

Henley needle galvanometer, 1855-1860

Telecommunications

1855-1860

Tobacco box - made from a piece of roman lead pipe

Miscellanea & Curiosities

1854

Royal footwarmer, Great Western Railway

Passenger Comforts

1856

Lead weight marked 'Reid' from the first cross-Channel telegraph cable, 1850.

Telecommunications

1850

magneto-electrometer, 1857

Telecommunications

1857

Wheatstone's portable ABC telegraph, 1858

Telecommunications

1858

Sample of deep-sea section of first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858

Telecommunications

1857-1858

Clark's block signalling telegraph instrument, 1854

Signalling & Telecommunications

1854

Bust of James Watt in Parian Ware made by Josiah Wedgwood & Sons from original by E.W. Wyon

Motive Power

after 1859

Distinguished Men of Science

William Walker

1862

Album of cyanotypes of British and Foreign Ferns

Photographs

1853

Specimen of Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

Telecommunications

1851

sample of deep-sea section of first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858

Telecommunications

1857-1858

Portion of the first submarine cable between Dover and Calais, 1850

Telecommunications

1850

Wax portrait of Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy (1780 – 1854)

Clockmakers

1851

Writing machine for blind people, United Kingdom, 1862

Printing & Writing

1862

Oil lamp base for Thomson mirror speaking galvanometer, 1858

Telecommunications

1858

'Thunder pump' magneto-electric device, 1856

Telecommunications

1856

Micrometer type mechanical comparator

Industrial Metrology

1855

Thomson mirror speaking galvanometer, 1858

Telecommunications

1858

Arthington Tunnel memorial plaque, 1849

Railway Infrastructure

1849

The Great Exhibition Polka 1851

Art

1851

Chart of the Atlantic showing proposed couRse of the Atlantic Cable, 1856-1857

Telecommunications

1856-1857

Sample of 1851 Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

Telecommunications

1851

Thomson (Lord Kelvin) double curb transmitter, 1858

Telecommunications

1858